TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

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Both appeals argue that "the process is biased and fails due process."

Due process is described as:

The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven words, called the Due Process Clause, to describe a legal obligation of all states. These words have as their central promise an assurance that all levels of American government must operate within the law ("legality") and provide fair procedures.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process

I have not listened to the entire proceeding, but enough to realize that some of the questioning has little to do with the impact of the TMT on Hawaiian rights and customs as practiced in the historical past thoroughly described in written documents or through oral tradition. The questions put forward by the Protectors and their supporters are repetitious, tangential, and often only meant to lead the person testifying through an elaborate maze designed to trip him/her up, so they appear to contradict earlier statements.

The petitioners have 30 minutes to question each witness, every witness called. I would suggest that with their aimless, ineffective line of inquiry, they are the only ones interfering with their own due process.